Episode 104

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About This Episode

Corey has a tutorial on using Adobe Illustrator's blend tool to create some super text effects. Special guest Matt Kloskowski shares some easy alternatives for watermarking your photos.

This Halloween Spooktacular Episode is from the early days of Layers TV. RC and Corey reconstruct the opening sequence using a variety of creative suite tools like Soundbooth, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and After Effects.

You will recognize this episode from earlier this year. Layers TV is place-holding this week while the podcast gets retooled. In this episode RC has tips about using Illustrator to create a brochure with text wraps inside. Corey shows how to customize your workspace in Photoshop and create an action that loads that workspace as soon as Photoshop opens.

Special guest Dave Cross has a tutorial about how to setup an InDesign template that is great for presenting your photographs. RC opens up Flash and goes through the basics of using graphics, buttons, and movie clips.

RC has a viewer-inspired tip on using Illustrator's alignment tools with clipping masks. Corey opens up Photoshop and shows a tip on creating a stroke around text with an empty space between using layer styles.

Corey also talks about his tutorial in Illustrator, the tutorial shows us how to use the gradient mesh tool on type and how to get to get some cool effects. RC shows us how to take a Dreamweaver website and turn it into a desktop application using Adobe AIR.

For their 100th episode, Corey and RC have a special project involving many of the Adobe Suite applications. Corey creates an animation using Photoshop, Illustrator and after Effects. RC uses Soundbooth CS4 to create a soundtrack for the video clip. Be sure to stay tuned for the closing credits!

RC shares a tutorial about exporting InDesign documents into web-friendly swf files. Corey has a freshly-named segment called “Tablet talk” in which he discusses how to program the express keys on your design tablet to run actions.

RC discusses color calibration and profiling for computer monitors and printers. Corey has a tutorial in which he divides a photo into layers and animates those layers using Photoshop CS4 3D animation tools.

RC and Corey take turns discussing some of the basics of working with type in the Adobe applications. They go over text boxes and the character panel, kerning and tracking, as well as how to download and install new fonts.

RC has a tutorial on how to deliver video on the web using the Longtail video player and Dreamweaver. Corey talks about some Photoshop CS3 features that were left out of CS4 and how to get them back by visiting Adobe’s web site.

RC talks about where Fireworks fits into the Creative Suite and uses the application to do a quick website mock up. Corey is enamored with Wacom’s new Intuos4 and shows how to set it up for specific applications.

RC discusses Photoshop’s Zoomify tool and how it can be used to post hi-res images to the web. Corey uses Photoshop to create a background graphic using distort filters, halftone patterns, and gradients.

Corey recreates a graphic that you will recognize from an upcoming movie by using the 3D options in Photoshop Extended. RC talks about correcting a distorted image using the lens correction options in Photoshop.

Corey finishes the tutorial he began last week on creating a fireball logo in Adobe Illustrator and moves it into Photoshop CS4 to add some 3D effect. RC talks about some of the changes and new features in Soundbooth CS4.

Corey’s tutorial uses Adobe Flash to split text in half and animate the two halves coming into the stage from opposite sides. RC demonstrates how to create a portfolio packet using Adobe Bridge and Acrobat.

RC has a tip about using multiple artboards in Adobe Illustrator. Jason "The Scriv" Scrivner is back on the show with a tutorial about video editing with After Effects and creating an aged, gritty feel for your video.

Corey uses an After Effects stroke feature to create a traced outline effect. RC answers some viewer questions about installing and using a Dreamweaver plugin called Lightbox 2 that displays your photos on the web.

Corey uses an After Effects stroke feature to create a traced outline effect. RC answers some viewer questions about installing and using a Dreamweaver plugin called Lightbox 2 that displays your photos on the web.

Corey goes over some of the cool things you can do with a Wacom pen tablet. Rich Harrington is back again and this time he is talking to Corey about moving layer styles from Photoshop to After Effects and back again.

RC talks about how a little organization can go a long way when preparing to layout a site in Dreamweaver. Special guest Megan O'Brien shows RC how she uses Photoshop with a pen tablet to draw and color her 2D illustrations.

RC opens up iTunes and shows viewers just how easy it is to find podcasts and other free content that is available out there. Jean Francois O'Kane makes another guest appearance to talk about setting white balance and exposure in your camera.

Corey creates some shapes in Illustrator and turns them into a motion background using After Effects. Rich Harrington is back to show Corey how to use green screen technology with panorama shots in After Effects.

RC goes through some of the general processes when using Lightroom and looks at some of the new features in Lightroom 2. Special guest Jean Francois O'Kane shares a photography video on lighting your subject with one light.

Corey has a tutorial about using custom symbols to modify the bevel feature in Illustrator. Rich Harrington is back and this time he is teaching us how to use alpha channels from Photoshop to create transparency in video clips.

Using Dreamweaver, RC goes through the basic steps of setting up a website from start to finish. Corey is joined by special guest Rich Harrington who goes over some of the common layer controls used in After Effects.

RC has some tips about using Illustrator to create a brochure with text wraps inside. Corey shows how to customize your workspace in Photoshop and create an action that loads that workspace as soon as Photoshop opens.

Corey, who is flying solo behind the desk this week, has a tutorial on creating a repeating shape pattern to use as a background. RC recorded an interview with Eddie Tapp about his 90 Percent method of color correction.

In this motion graphics episode, Corey shows us how to use presets in After Effects to make a motion background with some animated text. RC uses Adobe Premiere to place a logo graphic in the corner of a video file.

Corey and RC are hosting an informative episode this week. Corey discusses how to choose the right Wacom tablet and special guest Larry Becker joins RC to talk about the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP).

Corey uses Photoshop to transform a video clip into a stylized image using the Import Video Frames as Layers command. RC goes over a couple of different ways to get your video file onto the web using Flash and Dreamweaver.

Corey demonstrates how to use filters and nested smart objects to create motion graphics in Photoshop CS3 Extended. RC talks about installing a Flash component to quickly and easily create an xml-based slideshow.

Special guest Dave Cross has a tutorial about how to setup an InDesign template that is great for presenting your photographs. RC opens up Flash and goes through the basics of using graphics, buttons, and movie clips.

One of the most powerful capabilities in Photoshop CC is the variety of ways you can apply adjustments that only affect a specific area of a photo. This lesson will introduce you to the use of layer masks for targeted adjustments.

Photoshop CC has the ability to simulate the look of the printed image on your computer’s display, helping ensure the best results when printing your photos. This lesson will provide you with an overview of soft proofing in Photoshop CC.

With digital magazines becoming more popular every day, designers are now faced with the extra work load of maintaining two documents (one vertical, and one horizontal). Find out how you can leverage InCopy Assignments to synchronize text between documents. [Note: it is not necessary to actually have InCopy installed for this workflow]

In this episode of CSInsider, Rufus Deuchler, Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe, introduces you to how easily you can extrude text in Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended to create fully fledged 3D objects. These 3D objects can then be rendered using Photoshop's own Raytracing engine, including cast shadows. This feature lets you add a 3D flair to your 2D images.

Once you have created you interactive overlays using the Overlay Creator Panel in InDesign CS5/5.5 you are ready to share your content to a tablet device. Rufus Deuchler, Worldwide Design Evangelist at Adobe, shows you how to use the Folio Builder Panel and introduces the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard.

In this episode, Greg uses Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 to put the finishing touches on his website before submitting it to his client. This includes, externalizing javascript, uploading files to the server, and using Adobe’s Browser Lab to test the site in multiple browsers.